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This repo is indexed in graft/: small linked markdown nodes that explain each system and carry exact file:line spans, kept in sync with the code through git. For ANY task here — understanding how something works, finding where code lives, or scoping a change — get context from the graph before grepping or opening source files. Re-ask freely (it's cheap) and reuse literal identifiers you already have (symbol, error string, file name) as the query. New to this repo? Run…
We split this copilot-instructions.md into the rules it gives an agent
5 rules. About 0 are common, 1 is distinctive, and 4 are very specific to this project.
≈0
Common · estimate
Many files like this have a rule of this kind.
≈1
Distinctive · estimate
This author's own choices. Worth a look.
4
Very specific
Tied to their project's names, files or tools. Probably skip.
- Common
- Distinctive
- Very specific
- Very specific: line 11
Run graft map first — a token-budgeted orientation (dir clusters, hubs, hotspots), no LLM, no key.
- Very specific: line 14
Run graft ask "<your question>" --source → ranked nodes with the relevant code spans inlined (each hit's ≤8-line crux by default.
- Very specific: line 26
Add --direction out for what it calls, or --depth N to walk transitively for the full blast radius.
- Distinctive: line 34
If a returned span is truncated ("+N more lines"), open the file at that exact range before finalizing.
- Very specific: line 39
After big code changes, refresh the graph with graft build (deterministic, no API key, $0).
≈ “Common” is an estimate: at least 1 in 5 of the 3,669 Copilot instructions files we read have a rule of the same kind, not the same words. “Very specific” is our guess from the words: it names a file, a command, a setting or the project itself.
Files
<!-- graft:start -->Graft — repo context graph
This repo is indexed in graft/: small linked markdown nodes that explain each
system and carry exact file:line spans, kept in sync with the code through git.
For ANY task here — understanding how something works, finding where code lives,
or scoping a change — get context from the graph before grepping or opening
source files. Re-ask freely (it's cheap) and reuse literal identifiers you
already have (symbol, error string, file name) as the query. New to this repo?
Run graft map first — a token-budgeted orientation (dir clusters, hubs,
hotspots), no LLM, no key.
- Run
graft ask "<your question>" --source→ ranked nodes with the relevant code spans inlined (each hit's ≤8-line crux by default;--fullfor whole definitions when the crux isn't enough). Match the tool to the task shape: for understanding or editing, the top node IS the answer — cite itscovers:file:line spans and edit straight from--source. For exhaustive tasks ("every occurrence / every caller of this pattern"), ranked results are top-N, not complete — rungraft grep "<literal>"instead (exhaustive over indexed files, grouped by enclosing symbol), falling back to rawgrep -rnonly for unindexed files. graft skeleton <file>→ every definition's signature + span, ~10× cheaper than reading the file; use it to skim an API surface.graft callers <symbol>gives precomputed, exact edges — who calls this. Add--direction outfor what it calls, or--depth Nto walk transitively for the full blast radius. For structural questions, skip ranking and use this directly.- Or browse:
graft/INDEX.mdlists every node; follow the links. - Monorepos and folders of multiple repos rank fairly across sub-projects —
hits carry
[scope/]labels naming which one they're from. Narrow withgraft ask "<task>" --in <scope>/once you know where you're working.
If a returned span is truncated ("+N more lines"), open the file at that exact range before finalizing. Only open source files when a node genuinely lacks a needed detail, and then at the exact file:line the node points to — never re-read whole files.
After big code changes, refresh the graph with graft build (deterministic,
no API key, $0).
<!-- graft:end -->Trending
Surging: 2 new projects took it in the last 4 weeks, none the 4 weeks before.thin data
Other versions5 projects use a version of this.
Word for word · 5
- Riteshp2001/mpvRx★ 793100% same
- tinylabscom/mvm★ 46100% same
- Kali-Decoder/Midnight-Skills★ 18100% same
- brkmustu/clrinf★ 5100% same
- BrightGold70/skills★ 1100% same
Edited · 0
None found.
Wrote their own version · 0
None found.
How matches are found. Word for word: the exact same text. Edited: shares passages with this file (“99% same” means 99% of its five-word phrases also appear here; 10% or more counts). Their own version: similar meaning, or, weakest, the same name. We can’t tell which project had it first. Projects are counted among the 200 most-starred candidates, and mentions are links to the repository we found, up to 50 per site, so both counts are a floor.
Where files are headingNew Copilot instructions files have more rules about branches and pull requests, and fewer about code style.
Of the Copilot instructions files we read, the 2,297 first seen in the last six months, against the older ones: the kind of rule that gained most share, and the kind that lost most. About files like this in general, not this one, and an estimate, since a kind is a pattern in the words.
In this repository21 other files it gives its agents.
- AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
- speckit-analyzeSkill
- speckit-checklistSkill
- speckit-clarifySkill
- speckit-constitutionSkill
- speckit-convergeSkill
- speckit-implementSkill
- speckit-planSkill
- speckit-specifySkill
- speckit-tasksSkill
- speckit-taskstoissuesSkill
- speckit-analyzeSkill
- speckit-checklistSkill
- speckit-clarifySkill
- speckit-constitutionSkill
- speckit-convergeSkill
- speckit-implementSkill
- speckit-planSkill
- speckit-specifySkill
- speckit-tasksSkill
- speckit-taskstoissuesSkill
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